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Much in Little 



A Work Intended to Teach How to Cure 
Yourself of Disease by the Power of 
Magnetism in Such a Concise 
Manner that All Can Un- 
derstand and Apply 



BY 
MRS. MARCIA J. HOWE 



WHEATON, 

ILLINOIS. 







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Copyright 1905 

BY 

MRS. MARCIA J. HOWE 






CONTENTS. 

Chapter I. 

Page. 
Mental Treatment 7 

Chapter II. 
How Always to Have a Healer With You..ll 

Chapter III. 
How to Get Perfect Rest 21 

Chapter IV. 
Some Simple Exercises 31 

Chapter V. 
Believe in the Power Within 4i 

Chapter VI. 
Suggestions as to Diet 53 



INTRODUCTION. 

Dear Reader:— This little book is espe- 
cially dedicated to you, that you may find 
within its pages just the thing you want to 
know, viz.: Health— how to obtain and 
keep it. In it you will find gymnastics or 
physical culture exercises to promote health 
and also instructions how to use the great 
" Mental Force" which, if used according to 
directions, will cure any known disease 
which is not caused by dislocations, and oft- 
times alleviate even those. First I will tell 
you how to take the " Mental Treatment," 
as I shall wish to refer to it many times in 
the following chapters. I have tried to put 
this information in as condensed a form as 
possible and make my meaning plain. 

M. J. H. 

Wheaton, 111., Oct. 24, 1904. 



CHAPTER I. 

MENTAL TREATMENT. 

Lie down upon bed or couch, and make 
yourself perfectly comfortable. 

Relax every nerve and muscle in your 
entire body, until you are perfectly lax and 
passive; the more deeply you relax the 
quicker you will receive benefit; do not be 
discouraged if at first you find this hard to 
do, you will accomplish it after a few trials. 

Now, beginning at the head, send your 
thoughts (not moving the lips) around the 
head through the brain, to the eyes, nose, 
mouth, teeth, chin, neck and throat, lungs, 
heart, liver, stomach, spine, bowels, bladder, 
hips, upper leg, knees, lower legs, ankles, 
feet and toes; here rest a few minutes. 

Then beginning at the feet, go back to the 
head in the same way as you came down. 

You will feel a slight tingling sensation 
in different parts of the body, something like 
a slight current of electricity (in some this 
is felt more plainly than in others) ; this is 
when disease is separating itself from the 
tissues of your body. 



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Spend from twenty to thirty minutes 
daily in this treatment; when you retire at 
night is the best time. 

Should you fall asleep at any time during 
the treatment the work will go on just the 
same, as the work once started will be car- 
ried on by the inner mind regardless of your 
will. 

You will soon find disease leaving your 
body, and you will be strong, both mentally 
and physically. 

Take this treatment very, very slowly, 
and dwell a little longer on any part where 
disease seems to be fastened. 

After you have taken this treatment sev- 
eral months in this way, all you will have to 
do will be to lie down, relax, and say to your- 
self : I will rest for twenty minutes. 

Then with this thought in mind, say: I 
will that the health force go to every part of 
my body. And you will immediately feel 
the work going on. 

For nervousness, take a separate treat- 
ment, in the morning or near the middle of 
the day. 

Just lie down, relax as before and will that 
your nerves are becoming strong and well, 



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and that you have complete control over 
them. 

If you should wish to take this treatment 
at some time when you cannot conveniently 
lie down, you may take it in the sitting posi- 
tion, only get in some easy position so that 
you are perfectly comfortable and can thor- 
oughly relax. 

It is not especially necessary for you to 
use the exact thought which I have laid out 
for you here. If you have any thought in 
mind that seems to fit your special case, use 
it, and the result will be as you wish. 

In taking any of these treatments in the 
day time always direct your mind, before 
beginning the treatment, that if you should 
fall asleep during the treatment that you 
will awaken in ten, twenty, or thirty min- 
utes, as you may wish to decide upon, feel- 
ing perfectly bright and clear. 



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CHAPTER II. 

I am here trying to teach you, so you will 
always have a physician with you (the God 
power within you) . 

You are not always with a healer, but you 
are always with yourself, so when you have 
learned to have full control of your body, it 
will be as easy to separate disease from your 
system as to take a drink of water when you 
are thirsty. 

When you have acquired this it will not 
only help you in getting disease out when it 
has once gotten in, but which is better, help 
you to keep it out. 

All have within them this power, and we 
have all known of instances which show us 
exclusively that the inner mind has power 
to heal just the same as the outer mind has 
power to direct us in other ways. 

Ofttimes these two minds work together, 

as for instance the woman who had had a 

long, severe illness and could not sleep. The 

attending physician had given her all the 

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morphine he deemed best, so told her she 
must do without, but sleep she could not, 
and was wearing herself out, so finally the 
nurse told her she would get her the desired 
drug, went out of the room and prepared a 
pill of bread, came back and administered it, 
and in less than ten minutes the patient was 
sleeping soundly. 

I will here relate another instance, where 
the physician was giving the morphine 
hypodermically, took his little pill of mor- 
phine and dissolved it in the water (as he 
supposed), and injected it into the patient's 
arm. The effect was almost instantaneous, 
but on returning to the table, he found the 
pill lying there— he had not put it in the 
water as he supposed. 

Now this does not imply that the disease 
was an imaginary one, but it does imply that 
the administering of the bread and the 
water was a suggestion to that inner mind, 
and was accepted by same, and therefore 
quieted the nerves, and the patient found 
relief. 

There are two states of mind, the positive 
and the passive. 

The positive is the state of mind which 



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the woman used who prepared the bread 
pill. While she was preparing the pill, she 
was concentrating her mind on the quieting 
effect the pill would have. 

The passive is the state of mind which the 
one who took the pill had, for if her mind 
had not been passive she would not accept 
the suggestion and no result would have 
been obtained. 

Right here I will say for the benefit of 
perhaps some that are not familiar with 
the term suggestion, as used in this sense: 

That a Suggestion is a thought formu- 
lated and expressed in one mind for the pur- 
pose of influencing another. 

Suggestions may be divided into the fol- 
lowing classes, viz. : 

Auto, Hetero, Post Hypnotic, Larvated, 
Direct and Indirect. 

An Auto Suggestion is a thought origi- 
nating in yourself, and operating upon your- 
self, and is the strongest suggestion that 
can be given, because it is your own positive 
determination. The strongest suggestion 
always prevails, so that an auto suggestion 
will annul any suggestion that may be given 
to one person by another. For instance, if 



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you have suggested to yourself that you will 
not perform a certain act, and at the time 
have been in a passive state of mind so the 
suggestion was received within yourself by 
this inner mind, no one can influence you to 
perform that act, whatever it may be. This 
is the kind of suggestion you are giving 
yourself when you take the Mental Treat- 
ment, and as soon as you can perfect your- 
self into a perfect state of relaxation you 
will receive the suggestion which you are 
giving yourself and the God within you will 
do the work, and disease must go. 

To protect yourself from disease or other 
harmful influences which might come to 
you, as we must call disease an enemy, the 
same as anything else that is not good 
for us: 

Take this short treatment for a few 
weeks or months as the case may be until 
you are sure you have the thought ingrafted 
in your inner self and are proof from harm- 
ful influences. It is a good treatment to 
take at intervals during life, to be sure you 
are safe. 

Treatment: Relax the same as in the 
Mental Treatment (as this is also a mental 



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treatment), and think this thought when 
thoroughly relaxed, viz.: I will accept all 
good suggestions which come to me, and re- 
ject all bad ones. 

After you have practiced this you will 
soon find you have this thought so engraven 
within you, that without any special effort 
on your part, disease, and worry, which in- 
vites disease, will be a thing of the past. 

We are continually accepting from others, 
whether we realize it or not. The good sug- 
gestions make us healthy, more intellectual, 
brighter, successful, better in every way. So 
by taking this short treatment, we will put 
ourselves in a position that we will receive 
the good sent us and reject that which 
would be detrimental. 

An Hetero suggestion is one given by one 
person to another; it may be direct or indi- 
rect, verbal or mental. 

This is the kind of suggestion everyone is 
using all the time, as everyone is always 
sending out suggestions of some nature, 
good or bad, whether we are conscious of it 
or not, and is the suggestion we use in send- 
ing our absent treatments. In this mode 
the patients put themselves in a perfect 



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state of relaxation at a certain hour fixed by 
the healer and themselves, and at that hour 
the healer sends such healing thoughts as 
are applicable to the disease from which the 
patient is suffering. In this way the patient 
not only has the power of his own thoughts, 
but the healing power of the other thoughts 
which are sent him or her. "The brain is 
the laboratory in which the mind produces 
its product, and the thing mind produces is 
thought. This product in its process of 
manufacture comes from the cells of the 
brain, and a chemical change is wrought, and 
a force is given off as a resultant of this 
chemical change, and this force is thought, 
and goes out as a thought wave under the 
direction of the will, and also registers itself 
upon the sympathetic nervous system and 
is distributed throughout the physical or- 
ganism." 

We represent our minds as an instrument, 
the minds of our patients as another, which 
are tuned in harmony with each other, so a 
thought sent out from the one mind is re- 
ceived by the other, as this is a thought at- 
mosphere, so it is received just as surely as 
a message sent by wireless telegraphy is re- 



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ceived, as their instruments are tuned in 
harmony with each other, and so are the in- 
struments of our minds, when we are send- 
ing and receiving treatment. 

A word or thought creates a vibration in 
the air, just as a stone thrown into the 
water produces a ripple, and this vibration 
travels with the speed of lightning to the 
terminus and makes itself felt by all who 
are tuned in harmony with the sender. 

A Post-hypnotic suggestion is one to take 
effect after the subject has been awakened 
from the hypnotic sleep. 

For instance, the healer tells the patient 
that when he awakens he will feel better; 
that his disease will gradually be removed 
and he will get perfectly well, or that any 
bad habit which he may have will be re- 
moved; that it will be disgusting to him, or 
that he will perform a certain duty. Stam- 
mering and bad habits of all kinds are often 
cured by this method of suggestion. 

Laravated suggestion is a hidden sugges- 
tion, such as giving a patient sweetened or 
colored water, stating it is a medicine which 
will produce a certain result. There are cer- 
tain persons that are so in the habit of tak- 



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ing medicine that they cannot seem to get 
their minds to the point that they can better 
be cured without than with, and in those 
cases this form of suggestion is often re- 
sorted to with very good results. Many of 
the most successful physicians are using 
this form of suggestion today, either con- 
sciously or unconsciously, many a person is 
paying for a medicine which in itself would 
not do him any good or harm only for the 
suggestion it conveys. I do not mean to 
convey the idea that there is no power in 
drugs, for I think they have a great power 
unless differently ordered by our minds. If 
you take poison you will feel the ill effects of 
same. That is the reason I say don't take 
medicine, as a great many of them are pois- 
onous, although in many instances they per- 
form a cure, but when we are cured by the 
all healing power of the mind we have no 
effect of poisons to overcome, we are pure, 
as nature intended. 

An Indirect suggestion is one given from 
the positive mind of one person to the pas- 
sive mind of another. If a healer hypnotizes 
a patient and gives him a suggestion of 
health, the healer's mind is positive and that 



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of the patient passive. The patient receives 
the thought and is benefited. 

A Direct suggestion is one which is sent 
by a passive mind to a passive mind; for 
instance, the healer puts himself in a pas- 
sive condition with the thought on his mind 
that he wishes to convey to the patient, who 
is also in a passive condition at the time. He 
receives the message with the same result 
as the indirect suggestion patient. 



CHAPTER III. 

Many persons are tired all the time. They 
either do not know how to rest or have liver 
trouble. 

A person to get perfect rest must relax all 
muscles and nervous tension. 

I will give you a simple test of relaxation. 
Set a book up endwise on your lap; place 
the fingers of one hand on the book; then re- 
lax every muscle in that hand and arm, 
letting the hand hang by the tips of the 
fingers; then suddenly, with the other hand, 
jerk the book away, and if the hand and 
arm is thoroughly relaxed the hand will in- 
stantly fall to your lap. If it is not thor- 
oughly relaxed it will not fall heavily; it 
will either remain in the same position or 
fall slowly and lightly. 

If you cannot relax well at first you will 
do well to try this with different parts of the 
body until you find you have complete con- 
trol of your muscles, and after getting con- 
trol of your muscles and taking the Mental 

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Treatment— which will bring you health— 
you will soon have complete control of your- 
self, so your temper, if ruffled at times, can 
be subdued so as not to send out hasty words 
which we are apt to regret after. Not being 
able to control our temper not only makes 
us miserable, but sends out such vibrations, 
which are apt to reflect on others who may 
be in an inharmonious state of mind also. 

Have not you ever noticed when there has 
been a number of people in a room all seem- 
ingly happy and enjoying themselves, and 
let a person step in and either look or say 
something unpleasant, how instantly it is 
felt by everyone in the room? And on the 
reverse, if all are feeling gloomy let a pleas- 
ant face come in with perhaps a cheering 
word, how quickly all faces brighten, the 
clouds seem to have been lifted and the 
heavy load seems lighter. 

Every thought sent out by us is sure to 
return to us again. If we send out good 
ones we will get good in return. If the re- 
verse, unpleasant ones will surround us. All 
these influence our health, as well as our 
happiness. As in Prov. 16-24: "Pleasant 
words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the 



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soul, and health to the bones/ ' Also Prov. 
17-22: "A merry heart doeth good like a 
medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the 
bones." 

"Whatsoever a man sgweth, that shall he 
also reap. " " While if his mind send out the 
thoughts of kindness, gentleness, sympathy 
and brotherly love for all mankind, all like 
thoughts that are floating in this universe of 
vibrations in which we live and move and 
have our being can come in and establish the 
same vibrations, and in turn be reflected 
upon the physical organism, giving health 
and strength, establishing pleasure in the 
place of pain, ease in the place of disease. " 

A person can be positive and stand for 
character and right, not be blown around by 
every wind that blows and not be angry or 
stubborn. A person with a strong will 
power can acquire this personality easier 
than one with a weak one, but those with 
weak wills can cultivate them until they are 
strong. Cultivate every part that is defi- 
cient by using it and it will wax strong. If 
we do not exercise our hands they will be- 
come weak, so with our wills, if we do not 
exercise them they will become useless. 



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Do not confound will power and stub- 
bornness, as they are the reverse. Some 
people flatter themselves on having a very 
strong will, when in reality they have a very 
ordinary one. They mistake the symptoms 
and are simply stubborn. You will find that 
people who are stubborn do not possess the 
faculty of influencing others, while people 
who have a strong will power have that 
faculty. 

The real strength of the will is measured 
by its ability to govern yourself, and control 
the minds of those with whom you come in 
contact, so their minds will not be able to 
influence you into wrong actions. 

A person with a strong will does not need 
to speak. They do not need to utter a word, 
but somehow the temptations do not seem 
to come to him as they do to those of weaker 
wills. There seems to be an unseen force 
going out from a strong will that the minds 
of others cannot resist. 

You can develop this will power largely 
by determining to accomplish certain re- 
sults, commence with easy things and make 
it a point to accomplish harder ones day by 
day, and in time you will be able to accom- 



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plish whatsoever you desire with seemingly 
no exertion on your part. 

At all times you should keep before you a 
clear idea of the division of the mental facul- 
ties, for it is this peculiarity of the mind 
that makes it susceptible to influence. 

First study the weakness of the mind, and 
the channels through which it may be in- 
fluenced. Next study the things with which 
it may be influenced and the proper mode of 
attack, this will require thought and prac- 
tice, but he who would succeed need not ex- 
pect to do so without labor. Bear in mind 
that each failure saps the energy of the will. 
A good exercise to take to develop this 
power is a breathing exercise, rules for 
which I will give right here : 

Breathing exercise : Go out into the open 
air, stand erect, shoulders back; inhale 
through the nose until you feel the lungs are 
full of fresh air, then sort of hold your 
breath in a way so it forces the air clear to 
the bottom of the lungs, then exhale slowly 
through the mouth. And when you are 
doing this have in mind one of the thoughts 
given on next page. 



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First— My will power is strong. 

Second— I will never get discouraged. 

Third— I shall never have the blues. 

Fourth— I am determined to succeed. 

Fifth— I have perfect control of myself. 

Do not repeat these all at one breathing, 
as you would have to think too hurriedly. 
Just use one thought at each breathing, the 
one you feel that meets your special needs 
at that and all times. 

After you have practiced this for a short 
time you cannot help but feel that you are 
growing stronger. Do not be discouraged. 
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, 
but in rising every time we fall." 

It is admitted that there is an intelligence 
that controls the functions of the body in 
health. It shows it is the same energy that 
fails in the case of disease. Failing, it re- 
quires assistance and that is what all thera- 
peutic agencies aim to do. 

No physician of any school claims to do 
more than to assist nature to restore the 
body to a normal condition. That it is a 
mental energy that thus requires assistance 
no one denies. There is no animal life with- 
out mind. It is therefore a mental energy 



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that impels every fiber of the body under all 
conditions. That there is a central intelli- 
gence in each of those mind organisms is 
evident. In these instructions I try to give 
the best methods for obtaining results, and 
the result is the main thing. It is of more 
value to the sick person than the knowledge 
of the process by which the result is ob- 
tained. 

It is sufficient for us to know that such an 
intelligence exists, and that for the time 
being it is the controlling energy that nor- 
mally regulates the action of the myriad 
cells of which the body is composed. 

No method of treatment will cure every 
case, but this method cures thousands of 
people which cannot be cured with medi- 
cine. It is the most powerful curative agent 
known to-day; nothing compares with it for 
accomplishing good. Thousands who have 
filled untimely graves might have been liv- 
ing yet had the forces of nature been under- 
stood and applied. 

Meet the first symptom of disease with a 
vigorous and persistent Auto-suggestion of 
your freedom from disease, or your ability 
to throw it off. 



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When you go to bed at night, direct your 
Subjective mind (the subjective mind is the 
power that controls the functions, sensa- 
tions, and conditions of the body) to em- 
ploy itself during your sleep in restoring 
normal conditions, strongly feeling its abil- 
ity to do so. (This is really just another 
form of taking Mental Treatment.) And 
when you arise in the morning assume the 
attitude in mind and body of restored health 
and vigor. The attitude of the body reacts 
upon the subjective mind, producing corre- 
sponding suggestions of the most powerful 
character. 

Also take the breathing exercise early 
in the morning, when the air is fresh ancj. 
pure, with the above thought in mind. These 
exercises revitalize the blood, promote cir- 
culation, and stimulate to normal activity 
every cell of which the body is composed. 

Should these efforts fail to produce the de- 
sired effect, and should disease come upon 
you in spite of them, it is not the fault of the 
system, it is because you have failed to ap- 
ply them correctly; mental remedies are de- 
pendent for success upon mental conditions, 
just as physical remedies are dependent 



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upon physical conditions. Do not be dis- 
couraged, keep trying and you will succeed. 

Just as in an arithmetical problem you 
may not at first succeed, but upon trying 
again and again you get the right result; 
when we have complied with the laws of 
arithmetic we get our problem, and when 
we have complied with the laws of nature 
we get health. 

Hudson says: " Truth perpetuates itself 
by virtue of its own inherent vitality, and it 
organizes its own following from among 
those who recognize it by its harmony with 
all other truth. It needs no human organi- 
zation to promulgate it ; for it is self-gener- 
ating; nor to perpetuate it, for it is eternal. 
Every truth is of itself a part of an organ- 
ized system, which is co-extensive with the 
universe of God." Hence, no truth is unim- 
portant or insignificant. Suspend one law 
of physical nature for one moment, and the 
physical universe would disintegrate. Sus- 
pend one law of the mind and soul, and men- 
tal chaos would supervene. And as all the 
laws of nature are inter-related, and consti- 
tute one stupendous unitary system, it fol- 
lows that a suspension of one law, physical 



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or mental, would result in universal chaos. 
Evil, therefore, is but another name for in- 
harmony, and its origin is found in violation 
of the laws of God, physical, mental or 
moral. 

"This method of healing is an embodi- 
ment of Eternal Truth, and no false conclu- 
sion or suggestion can be derived from a 
knowledge of its method; while it is in no 
sense a religion, it is impossible for any 
right minded person to reflect upon the law 
of mental healing, its universality, its adap- 
tability to all grades of human intelligence, 
together with its implications of divine love, 
mercy, and benevolence, without a feeling 
of profoundest reverence for the Being 
whose wisdom and fatherhood is thus un- 
mistakably manifested. It teaches humility, 
promotes religion, inspires gratitude, and 
disarms prejudice against any form or pro- 
cess by which the law is made available for 
the alleviation of human suffering.' ' 



CHAPTER IV. 

In this chapter I will give you some sim- 
ple exercises which if taken in connection 
with the Mental Treatment will help to ex- 
pedite a cure. 

The use of these exercises effect many 
remarkable cures by moving the flesh and 
muscles in all possible directions over the 
entire body, and by reviving certain nerve 
centers which control the different organs 
of the body. 

In the nervous system, as in the 
telegraphic, the current must not be ob- 
structed. The. arteries are cylindrical ves- 
sels conveying the blood through this net- 
work of nerves and muscles to all parts of 
the body; the veins gathering up and re- 
turning it to the heart, pumping steadily 
through life, driving the blood to every part 
of the system and forcing it to return. 

Steady, hard work along one line or non- 
use of the muscles or exposure to cold will 
often weaken these parts and cause them 

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to become inactive. If the obstruction be in 
the thigh we have cold feet and limbs on one 
side of the obstruction, and heart disease on 
the other; if the veins returning the blood 
are obstructed in the same region we may- 
have either dropsy, inflammatory rheuma- 
tism, erysipelas, or eczema, caused by stag- 
nant blood on one side and heart disease on 
the other. 

In our body the bones are used to sup- 
port, the nerves to control, and the blood to 
supply; receiving as they do not only their 
orders to act, but their motor power, from 
that great dynamo, the brain. The sympa- 
thetic nervous system consists of series of 
ganglia or knots that extend down both 
sides of the spinal column, forming a kind 
of chain throughout its entire length, and 
communicating with the cranial and spinal 
nerves and distributing branches to all the 
internal organs. These nerves are un- 
doubtedly the organs of feeling and sensa- 
tion of every kind, and through them the 
mind operates on the body; the intelligent 
mind whose seat is in the brain, wills that a 
certain action be performed, and instantly 
the message flies through the main channel 



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—the spinal cord— branching off: here and 
there according to the direction in which the 
work is to be done, and setting in motion the 
muscles which perform the work. It is, 
therefore, well to keep the whole machinery 
in harmony with each other; so here I have 
given you a few exercises which you can use 
at your discretion for various diseases. 

In the body there are four great nerve 
centers or plexuses lying between the head 
and the extremity of the trunk along the 
spinal column. They may be located in the 
following way with sufficient accuracy for 
our purpose. 

I have drawn some lines, as shown in Fig. 
1, from shoulder tip to shoulder tip across 
the back and call this line No. 1, and another 
from lower rib to lower rib and call this line 
No. 2, and another across the back from the 
tip of the hip bone to the tip of the hip bone, 
and call this line No. 3, and another at the 
extremity of the trunk and call this line 
No. 4. 

Above line No. 1 and extending to the 
base of the brain are all the diseases of the 
head, neck and throat, and also diseases of 
the heart to be treated. 



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Between lines No. 1 and No. 2 are to be 
treated for diseases of the lungs, liver, 
spleen, arms and shoulders. The upper part 
of this space also affects the heart; the 
lower part the intestines. 

Between lines No. 2 and No. 3 kidneys 
and intestines are also treated and pelvic 
organs. 

Between lines No. 3 and No. 4 pelvic or- 
gans are also treated and nerves that control 
the limbs. 

In fact, it is well to treat the whole length 
of the spinal column, for in that way you 
will not miss any of the nerve centers. In 
this place I have digressed from my subject 
of self treatment, as the spine being at the 
back one cannot reach all points themselves 
and give such point sufficient pressure, but 
perhaps you have a friend or relative who 
will do this for you when necessary; you 
can, however, treat all above line No. 1 and 
all below line No. 2 yourself. 

To treat the spine, commence at the base 
of the brain by placing the palmar parts of 
the ends of the fingers of both hands side 
by side, using care not to press hard with 
the tip ends of the fingers, as only the pal- 



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mar parts of the fingers should be used; now 
press hard so as to move the muscles (not 
letting the fingers slide over the muscles 
without moving them); move muscles 
straight down nearly an inch, then with a 
rotary motion move a little out and up; 
treat the whole length of the spinal column 
on both sides in this manner. 

For reducing fever place the hands on 
both sides of the neck with the finger tips 
almost meeting over the spine; tip the head 
slightly backward; hold the head in this po- 
sition, pressing, gently, from one to three 
minutes. This treatment should be given 
every two or three hours until fever is gone. 
Each treatment reduces the fever some, but 
do not hold the nerve longer than three min- 
utes at any one treatment. 

Now I will give you what I call the Gen- 
eral self treatment: First, begin by rub- 
bing and punching with the ends of the fin- 
gers the whole scalp and cheek bones. 

Second, place hands on each side of the 
neck so that the finger tips nearly touch at 
the spine; then turn the head from one side 
to the other and at the same time gently 
draw hands toward front of neck until all 
muscles are thoroughly manipulated. 



36 MUCH IN LITTLE. 

Third, take the right hand, grab around 
left arm as high up on the shoulder as you 
can, and rotate the muscles of that arm clear 
to the hand. Twist as if trying to move the 
muscles upon the bone. Then take left hand 
and treat right arm in similar manner. 

Fourth, spat the chest and down as far as 
the ribs extend. 

Fifth, place both hands on hips with 
thumbs in front of waist and fingers at back; 
now raise hands up just as high as you pos- 
sibly can; keep fingers near enough to- 
gether so they will nearly touch in the center 
of the spine; then with strong pressure 
draw hands down to the hips, repeat this 
movement several times. 

Sixth, grasp hands around the leg, begin- 
ning at the hip and rotate the muscles 
deeply, the same as in the treatment of the 
arms. 

Seventh, lie on back, flex knee, and with 
both hands pull knee down as near the chest 
as possible. 

There is a movement which we call finger 
rapping. The motion is much the same as 
that used in playing the piano. This motion 
is used on any part of the body where the 



MUCH IN LITTLE. 37 

trouble is deep seated. It has much the 
same effect as the spatting (spoken of be- 
fore). This rapping does its work deeper 
than one would think who has never tried it. 
Many lame, painful joints have been cured 
by this movement. 

Exercises which are always beneficial: 

No. 1— Place heels nearly together; point 
the toes outward at an angle of about sixty 
degrees; take the weight of the body on the 
balls of the feet; place the elbows at the 
waist with the hands extended in front, with 
palms up. 

No. 2— Stretch the arms out to right and 
left on a level with the shoulders, palms up. 

No. 3— Carry them right up straight 
above the head, reaching as high as possible, 
palms forward. 

No. 4— Bring them down straight in 
front, keeping the elbows stiff, pushing 
downward with the palms of the hands, and 
at the same time throw the head upward 
and backward. (Pay no attention to the 
shoulders in this movement; do not throw 
them back). Hold the head and upper part 
of the body in position attained, and allow 
the arms to drop easily at the sides. 



38 MUCH m LITTLE. 

These exercises bring the head, neck and 
spinal column into perfect line, and over- 
come stooping shoulders, which invite lung 
troubles. 

No. 5— Place the hands on the floating 
ribs; draw in the breath as much as possible; 
then take a full breath, filling the lungs as 
full as possible. 

This exercise enlarges the chest, invig- 
orates the vital organs, gives more graceful 
waist line, and aids digestion. 

No. 6— Place the hands on the hips and 
bend down as far as possible, first on one 
side, then the other, then forward, then 
backward. 

This exercise stimulates the circulation 
of the blood and strengthens the vital 
organs. 

No. 7— Both hands high above the head, 
tense the muscles of the arms and let the 
hands hang from the wrists relaxed. 

No. 8— Holding the knees and arms stiff, 
bend the body forward so the tips of the fin- 
gers touch the floor. 

This exercise often cures hard colds if 
taken when they are first contracted; take 
the exercise a number of times in succes- 



MUCH IN LITTLE. 39 

sion, the movement of bending up and down 
repeatedly starts the blood in such rapid 
circulation that the cold is expelled; the 
harder the cold the oftener you will need to 
take the exercise. 

No. 9— Stand on one foot, holding the 
other in the hand. Do this with both feet. 

All of one's strength should be put into 
these exercises. Do not think if you work 
hard you have sufficient exercise and do not 
need to take these. Undoubtedly you do 
have more than enough, but it is probably 
all on one set of muscles, and taking these 
exercises and using different muscles will 
rest instead of tiring you. 

No. 10— Take hold of something that is a 
little higher than you can conveniently 
reach— just high enough so your feet will 
not touch the floor— and hang suspended 
there for about half a minute. A ladder set 
up against the wall is a very good thing for 
this exercise. 

This raises the ribs so there is no pressure 
on the vital organs and thus induces health, 
and helps in perfecting the form. 

No. 11— For diseases of the rectum, blad- 
der, and genital organs, place one hand on 



40 MUCH IN LITTLE. 

the lower part of the front of the abdomen, 
and with the back of the other hand spat 
the back, beginning just below the waist 
line, across the hips, and down on the but- 
tocks. 

No. 12— To stretch the spine where there 
is a tendency toward curvature, get down 
on the knees and bend head down as near 
the knees as possible; also in this connec- 
tion use exercise No. 10. 

No. 13— For constipation, lie flat on your 
back, extend the limbs high in the air, then 
let them fall suddenly and by so doing bring 
yourself into a sitting position; repeat this 
operation several times; this increases the 
peristalic movement of the bowels and in- 
creases the action of the liver. 

No. 14— For deafness insert the ends of 
your index fingers in each ear, crowd them 
in as far as possible; then remove quickly. 
This will stimulate the nerves of the ear and 
help to remove any wax which may be 
lodged there. If the wax is too hardly 
packed, soften with a little sweet oil and 
lemove with an ear spoon, being careful not 
to injure the drum of the ear. 



CHAPTER V. 

Believe in yourself —in the power within 
you, that has built you up from infancy 
and cared for your body in health. This 
same force will care for you through life. 

Have confidence in yourself and you can 
work miracles. I once knew a gentleman 
that knew he could cure himself of erysipe- 
las, but did not know that the same power 
that would cure erysipelas would cure any 
disease; and he was taken very sick, just 
groaning with pain, which was in his great 
toe. The doctor had been called and as the 
toe was beginning to turn black and the pain 
was so intense, he pronounced it gangrene, 
and said it would kill him, as he was then 
seventy-nine years of age. I went in later 
to see him and had been told what the doctor 
had said, and as I knew the gentleman had 
confidence in himself to cure erysipelas, 
I wanted to prove to myself whether the 
knowledge of the disease made any differ- 
ence in the cure of the disease where mental 

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42 MUCH m LITTLE. 

healing was applied; and as the nurse was 

bathing the foot, I said to him: "Mr. , 

did you ever have erysipelas ?" He said: 
"Yes." "Well," I says, "that looks very 
much like it, and you can cure that, can't 
you?" He brightened up and said: "Yes," 
and in less than two hours the inflammation 
had subsided, the pain had left the foot, the 
man was up, and down to supper and said 
he was all right, and did his usual work the 
following day. This shows the power of 
the mind over disease. Now this man had 
the same power to cure gangrene as he had 
to cure erysipelas, had he known it, but 
had he thought it had been gangrene he 
would just merely have given up and prob- 
ably died. This shows that it matters not 
whether you are conscious of the name of 
the disease from which you are suffering. 
The inner mind knows, and controls, so 
that disease is separated from the tis- 
sues and health is displacing disease, 
and health will be the result. I neg- 
lected to state that this gentleman did 
not take any of the doctor's medicine. 
Here is where the danger of taking med- 
icine comes in. The physician may give 



MUCH m LITTLE. 43 

you medicine for one disease and just before 
you die find out he has been treating you for 
the wrong disease, when it is too late to ben- 
efit you, but with the mental treatment, no 
matter what your disease, it cannot harm 
you. 

Undoubtedly the day will come when it 
will be considered a disgrace to be sick; 
because in being sick we have violated 
God's law. But I do not call sickness at the 
present time a disgrace, as through accident 
or unconsciously we may violate nature's 
law and sickness will be the result. If we 
put our hand in fire we will get burned. This 
we know and do not do it intentionally. The 
same in contracting disease; we do not do it 
intentionally, but occasionally disease will 
get the best of us and claim us as its victim. 

The best way I have found to keep away 
disease and all harmful thoughts is to relax, 
as in the mental treatment, and have in 
mind when we are in this relaxed condition 
this thought : In my daily life I will accept 
all good suggestions which come to me and 
reject all bad ones. Try this for a month or 
more and at intervals during your life, until 
it is really a part of your being, and you 



44 MUCH m LITTLE. 

will find yourself immune from disease and 
all harmful thoughts of others. 

Sending out good, helpful thoughts is just 
as helpful to the sender as to the receiver. 
Several times I have been called upon to 
give a treatment when I was very tired 
from physical exercise, which I had taken 
prior to giving the treatment, and when I 
commenced I would really feel that perhaps 
I had best not undertake it I was so tired, 
but when I had finished I would in every in- 
stance feel rested and strong, the patient 
also received the desired benefit. The power 
is within all to eradicate disease from their 
bodies, and we have a right to the full use of 
that power. This power is the kingdom of 
God within vou; it is in evervone, no matter 
of what religious belief he or she may be. 
Everyone possesses this power. 

Some claim they are not responsible for 
what they think. They cannot control their 
thoughts. There is where they are mis- 
taken. If we send out good thoughts we are 
certain they will return to us, and in time 
we will get so we will not only think good 
thoughts, but the good thoughts of others 
will be continually coming to us. Never en- 



MUCH IN LITTLE. 45 

tertain an evil thought and soon they will 
stop coming, and it will be as easy to keep 
well and healthy, as it was to be sick; health 
is natural, sickness is unnatural. 

One great thing in life is to conquer the 
obstacles in our own nature. He who can 
do this can conquer the obstacles he will 
meet during life, and to win largely and 
nobly he must have character. " Greater is 
he," saith the Good Book, "who ruleth his 
spirit than he that taketh the city." It is 
grand to be a taker of cities and a subduer of 
armies, but how much grander it is to be 
conqueror of one's own self, the master of 
our own passions. There is where we find 
true greatness, to be master of one's own 
spirit, and lord of one 's own temper. This is 
the secret of all true greatness which en- 
dows us with power. 

Let a person give up to his impulses and 
passions and that moment he loses his per- 
sonality; he is carried along the current of 
life, drifted here and there, becoming a slave 
to appetite and vices which may cross his 
path; to be morally free to be a person and 
not a mere thing, one must be able to resist 
the wild impulses and temptations which 



46 MUCH m LITTLE. 

surround us. After you have thoroughly im- 
bedded within your mind that simple mental 
exercise of accepting the good and rejecting 
the bad, you will have no trouble along this 
line, as you will not meet with temptations 
seemingly, for you will have such control 
over yourself you will not call it a tempta- 
tion, as it will not tempt. 

If one is weak from disease, this process 
of getting self-control will be slower; but as 
you take the mental exercise and regain 
your health you will find that with health 
will come your power to control. With some 
this will be harder than with others, but all 
can attain it if they will only stick to it. Very 
few accomplish much in life who are contin- 
ually changing. Those who succeed are 
those who have an object and press forward 
until it is reached. Never let it occur to you, 
as you are advancing in years, that you are 
growing old. Keep in mind that you are 
able to perform any duty that you per- 
formed earlier in lif e. This will help you to 
retain youth and ward off disease. I 
am really younger to-day than I was twenty 
years ago, for then I was racked with dis- 
ease and to-day I am strong and well, there- 
fore making me in reality younger. 



MUCH M LITTLE. 47 

Do not be discouraged if you do not begin 
to improve as soon as you think you ought. 
Nature must have a chance to do the work. 
Now, seeing you are giving it a chance, and 
are not handicapping it by drugs, you will 
find nature a true healer of all ailments of 
mankind and it becomes our duty to follow 
her methods. The requirements are simple, 
therefore there is no logical excuse why all 
should not enjoy a normal condition of 
health. 

Music has a healing effect when the 
proper chords are played. It seems to carry 
away the burden of life and fill the soul with 
a divine feeling that carries all impurities 
from the system. It is a factor in establish- 
ing more harmonious conditions of mind and 
body. Some healers always have a piece of 
music rendered while giving a treatment. 

Dr. Francis Kennedy, in his lecture on 
" Music as a Medicine," illustrating his talk 
with charts showing the effect of various 
kinds of music on the pulse and tempera- 
ture. 

The doctor stated that experiments were 
performed on nurses and teachers, in which 
"The patient first listened to 'Solverg's 



48 MUCH IK LITTLE. 

Song/ by Grieg, and the pulse went from 
60 to 80. Then came 'Traumerei,' and the 
pulse dropped to 64. Next followed the ' In- 
vitation to the Dance, ' the pulse going to 80 
and dropping at the close to 68. The 
'Oberon' was played and the pulse jumped 
to 80. A Grieg nocturne was played and the 
pulse responded by dropping to 64." It is 
better than medicine and much more pleas- 
ant to take. 

Hudson says: "The power of music over 
the subjective mind is practically unlimited. 
It speaks the universal language of the soul, 
and is comprehended alike by prince and 
peasant. It is the most powerful auxiliary 
of love, of religion, and of war. It nerves 
the soldier to deeds of heroism, and soothes 
his dying moments. It inspires alike the 
devotee of pleasure and the worshiper of 
God. But whilst it interprets every human 
emotion and embodies the inward feelings 
of which all other arts can but exhibit the 
effect, its laws are as fixed and immutable 
as the laws of mathematics. ' ' 

As the brain is the mind's laboratory 
and the only thing the mind produces is 
thought, we see that thought is a substance 



MUCH IN LITTLE. 49 

in motion and that motion is called vibra- 
tion, so every thought causes a vibration in 
the brain cells and this vibration is commu- 
nicated to the sympathetic nervous system 
—which is only an extension of the brain— 
and through this system these thought vi- 
brations are registered upon the physical 
organism. When the conscious mind is 
actively engaged, the nervous system and 
the muscular system are tensed, and thus 
the gentle vibrations in which we live and 
move and have our being are hindered in 
their regenerating work. 

In sleep we are in a perfect state of relax- 
ation, and according to the law of our nature 

it is necessarv to sink into slumber so that 

%/ 

the health-giving vibrations can have free 
course to sweep through our physical organ- 
ism and repair the waste and build us up. 

It is quite necessary that on going to sleep 
at night we should dismiss all care and 
worry from our minds and think only health 
giving and successful thoughts, that our 
bodies may be regenerated. 

Perfect relaxation of the nervous and 
muscular systems are of great importance, 
so that in our minds there will be no tension 



50 MUCH IN LITTLE. 

that would keep out the healing vibrations, 
and when every thought of care, worry, and 
anxiety has been dismissed from our mind, 
the health-giving vibrations can go in and 
impress themselves upon the brain cells, and 
are thus transmitted to the physical organ- 
ism and healthy conditions are established. 

The stomach usually is the first organ that 
is impaired by worry, the gastric glands fail 
to throw out the normal amount of gastric 
juice for that portion of food that is digested 
in the stomach; secondly, the liver is im- 
paired; does not furnish bile sufficient to 
perform its function when being thrown 
into the duodenum, the pancreas is likewise 
affected and its function impaired; thus the 
principal part of the digestive fluids are 
lacking, and the result is fermentation in 
the stomach and intestines rather than di- 
gestion; then the glands of the large intes- 
tines do not perform their proper function; 
then constipation is very liable to set in, 
which poisons the whole system and differ- 
ent diseases are liable to make their appear- 
ance. 

Possibly you may have a natural tendency 
toward the worry habit or really have 



MUCH IN LITTLE. 51 

trouble to make you worry, in either case 
the habit can be overcome by perfect relax- 
ation with this thought in mind, viz., I have 
perfect control of myself, I will not worry, 
sunshine has come into my life. In a short 
time you will find yourself improving, and 
you will have better control of your feel- 
ings, you will not only be able to control 
yourself and your own feelings, but will be 
a help to the one you are worrying over if 
it be a person, and on the other hand if your 
trouble is of an imaginative nature, just 
merely a habit from no real cause, this prac- 
tice will cure you as well, and strengthen 
your will power. 

Some people think that having a strong 
will power consists in contracting the eye- 
brows and assuming a fierce, determined 
expression, but that attitude of mind is the 
farthest possible from that which is required 
for the successful exercise of the will power. 
It requires no nervous tension to exert that 
power. A calm serenity of mind is indis- 
pensable; when that is acquired, the only 
other requisites are confidence and earnest 
desire to bring about the results sought, and 
these requisites can easily be acquired by 
any one of common intelligence. 



CHAPTER VI. 

I will here add a few lines in regard to 
diet. In order to supply the waste of our 
bodies we need a great variety of food. We 
must have water, we must have salt and 
lime, starchy substances (much the same to 
the body as sugar), and fats, and we must 
have a certain amount of nitrogenous food. 

If any of these be lacking the body soon 
feels it, and, although the person may not 
know precisely why he feels bad, he will 
often recover from his temporary disorder 
by a mere change of diet, as frequently per- 
sons require different kinds of food. A 
great many are advocating that we should 
discard the use of meats, but it has not been 
my experience, as I believe we were created 
only with the organs which were necessary 
to keep our bodies in repair; during the 
early part of life we have no teeth as we are 
supposed to be sustained by milk and do 
not need them. 

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54 MUCH IN LITTLE. 

The horse and cow and all herbivorous 
animals were created with incisive and mo- 
lar teeth, to bite and grind their food with. 
The lion, cat and dog, and all carnivorous 
animals were created with canine or tearing 
teeth, as they are supposed to live princi- 
pally upon flesh; and human beings are sup- 
plied with both kinds, which shows to me 
conclusively that they require all kinds of 
foods, both animal and vegetable, for the 
sustenance of our bodies. 

If a certain kind of food does not agree 
with you, let it alone, and use that which 
does agree with you; your stomach usually 
will tell you, but of all articles used for food 
or drink, water is indispensable. 

Man can live much longer on water with- 
out food than he can on food without water; 
a glass of cold water drank on retiring at 
night and another first thing in the morn- 
ing are very beneficial, especially to those 
troubled with constipation. 

Pure olive oil (be sure it is pure, as adul- 
terated oils are injurious) is a wonderful 
help in curing rheumatism used both inter- 
nally and externally. 



MUCH IN LITTLE. 55 

The changes which the food undergoes in 
the stomach are due to the action of the gas- 
tric juice, which contains two important 
constituents, viz., hydrochloric acid and 
pepsin; if it be deprived of these it will no 
longer exhibit its peculiar properties, while 
if it retains them it will digest food in a 
glass tube, outside the body, provided the 
tube and its contents are kept at a tempera- 
ture of 100° Fahr., which is about the ordi- 
nary temperature inside the stomach. 

In a feverish condition from whatever 
cause, whether from obstructed perspira- 
tion, undue excitement, by stimulating 
liquors, overloading the stomach, fear, anger 
or whatever depresses the nervous system, 
the secretions become vitiated, greatly di- 
minished or entirely suppressed, so it be- 
hooves us to control ourselves, our appe- 
tites and passions, that our bodies may be 
healthy. 

You will remember that in my first chap- 
ter I told you how to take the Mental Treat- 
ment. 

The subjective mind is constantly amen- 
able to control by the suggestions of the 
objective mind. 
LdFG. 



56 MUCH IN LITTLE. 

The functions and sensations of the body 
can be controlled by suggestions of the ob- 
jective mind, as it acts through the subjec- 
tive mind, and that is the reason that it is 
necessary for you to thoroughly relax, that 
there may be no tension upon your nervous 
or muscular systems, so that the thought 
sent by your objective mind to your sub- 
jective mind (which controls every organ 
in your body) can take root and the healing 
process is at once commenced. 

After you have followed the instructions 
in this little book, and have acquired a con- 
dition of health; then, by relaxing as in the 
Mental Treatment and thinking thoughts 
of success and health, you can make your- 
self successful and happy, receive strength 
to cast off worry or trouble so that it will 
not affect your health, and bring you suc- 
cess in other ways. 

This does not imply that you have no feel- 
ings or are heartless, but it does imply that 
you are able to control yourself, protect the 
body which God has given you from disease 
and decay, as it was intended by the All 
Wise Creator. 



MITCH IN" LITTLE. 57 

There are not many who pass through life 
without some sorrows, trials and worries, 
some have more, others less, all think they 
have their share, but, if we will stop to 
think, we can always find those whose trials 
are greater than ours; when you have ac- 
quired this self control (and you can do it if 
you will persist and stick to it), you will be 
able to say when worry or disease comes 
your way: "I will entertain no thought 
which can weaken me." Say it with deter- 
mination, and you will succeed, and will not 
only make yourself strong, but will help 
those about you. 

We are accustomed to regard space as an 
obstacle which necessarily prevents success- 
ful communication between persons, but 
distance is no obstacle in the way of healing, 
that is, a person in California can send 
thoughts of healing to a person in England 
just as well as if they were in the same town 
or state; with the unison of minds great 
things have been done along this line; but 
as I have intended this little book only to 
treat on Self Treatment I will not write 
further here on the subject of absent treat- 
ment. 



58 MUCH IN LITTLE. 

In conclusion I will add: follow the in- 
structions carefully, and always, when tak- 
ing the Mental Treatment; when taken in 
the daytime have in mind just how many 
minutes you are going to spend in this ex- 
ercise, so that you will always awaken at 
the end of the time as you wish; the way 
to do this is, when you go into your room 
for perfect quiet, lie down, relax, say to 
yourself, I will awaken in five, ten, fifteen, 
or twenty minutes, as the case may be ; then 
direct your mind with the thought of health, 
success, or any thought which you may wish 
to use for the development of your higher 
self, and you cannot fail to get relief if you 
will not be discouraged, but keep pressing 
forward until your highest ambitions are 
satisfied. I hope that you may understand 
every point as clearly as I have tried to 
make it, and please accept it in the same 
kindly spirit in which it is written, that all 
may live in a harmonious atmosphere, and 
drink in the blessings that love and good 
will toward all bring. 

(The End.) 



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